A subscription was shortly afterwards taken up among the foreigners, and he was sent back to America, where, as I afterwards heard, he died in some sort of asylum.

From time to time, for several years, I heard vaguely of Mrs.
Light as a wandering beauty at French and German watering-places.

Once came a rumor that she was going to make a grand marriage in England; then we heard that the gentleman had thought better of it and left her to keep afloat as she could.

She was a terribly scatter-brained creature.

She pretends to be a great lady, but I consider that old Filomena, my washer-woman, is in essentials a greater one.